The Best Answers From The Gabe Newell and Valve Reddit Interview

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These are some of the best responses from the Gabe Newell AMA on reddit recently, click here to see the full interview.

Cirek

What was the strangest/funniest thing you guys received in the mail?
What is your favorite cosmetic item from TF2?

Gabe

4Chan sent us a crate and offered to sell us a key to open it. We sold it on craigslist.

Humanitarian’s Hachimaki.

DavCor

How many hours a week would you say that you spend actually playing video games and whats your current favorite?

Gabe

Dota 2 and about 20 hours.

Garchoz + glorkcakes

How old were you when you start programing?

What was your first language?

Gabe

13 ALGOL

voksul

Is it possible for some sort of integration with services like Pandora and Spotify, in the future? I don’t have a music library, per se, and mostly just use internet radio, so it’d be great if I didn’t have to alt tab to change stations or skip songs. Could this happen?

Gabe

Yes, we’ve got some things in the works that we think you’ll like.

biruy

Do you ever play games such as tf2 on a secret steam account?

Gabe

Yes

motoxalex

What improvements will we see out of the Source 2 engine?

Gabe

The biggest improvements will be in increasing productivity of content creation. That focus is driven by the importance we see UGC having going forward. A professional developer at Valve will put up with a lot of pain that won’t work if users themselves have to create content.